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reply to Cabal

Re: Newegg shipping fake Core i7s

reply to Bobcat
price some one got a "great" deal from them newegg runs on very low margins
that 860 you got in the other thread at Microcenter; Microcenter is taking losses on in hopes youll buy a mobo and ram at the same time same with the 920s they sell

reply to Ken Peterson
I wanted to lern more about IPEX InfoTech and turns out there web site has been removed, makes me wonder whats going on over that place, someone shutting them down? or they just getting too much traffic from the media that they could not handle it.

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reply to Cabal
I hope there is some follow up by journalists about ipex, the fact that ipex isn't an authorized distributor, and whether this tells us something new about how newegg gets it's product. I would really appreciate an in depth story about the underbelly of distribution, what authorization fully means, what the implications are to not sourcing from authorized distributors, what, if anything, is going on behind the scenes between intel and newegg, intel's view of this and so on.

I have a feeling this is just going to die because there is embarrassment all around, including hardocp with it's source inside newegg. It sounds like kyle just wants it all to go away as soon as possible and hardocp was at the center of the story. Closely watching the way these stories are reported and evolve makes it clear how lazy a lot of journalism is and how little interest even the larger operations show in actually digging around. Other than "Efforts to reach IPEX were unsuccessful" here:

»blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/03/08/···stomres/

everything else I read was just a repeat of quotes from kyle at hardocp and quotes from the newegg facebook statement and kyle's interest in this story seems to have evaporated. I don't blame him, given the way things played out, but I wish someone would pick up the ball.

I think there is a broader story that deserves to have some serious journalistic attention. I doubt it will receive it.

Meh. Distribution and auth networks are old news, they got beat to death during other hardware problems in the late 90's early 2000's.

reply to asdfdfdfdfdf
Surprise, surprise, Ipex shifts the blame.
...and the trail continues.
»www.crn.com/hardware/223300173;j···TMY32JVN

Wonder how long before we get to the Chinese maze of suppliers, and the lost accountability for such a giant scam.
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reply to Cabal
Shouldn't the FBI get involved with this? Hopefully they could dig out the truth!